The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Contributors: Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
Publisher: Kodansha International
Published: July 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9784770029409
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; General; Fiction / Literary; Short Stories (single author)
First sentence: The mid-afternoon sunlight stuck, pure white, to the vertical and horizontal washing on the lines as an old man, walking through a large apartment complex in the airless, clammy heat, suddenly stopped in the middle of the road to look back over his shoulder and froze that way, and a brick-red car ground to a halt beside a mailbox as if its strength had petered out, though no one got out into the stillness of a July day at two o' clock, silent except for a distant drone that might have been either a dying mosquito or the hum of a machine in a school-lunch factory.